February 2025 Archives - Friends Journal

Prepared for This

Introduction to our February issue. Martin Kelley

[Kat Griffith stands on her front lawn, getting ready to go out for door-to-door canvassing. She's standing in front of a homemade sign that says "WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE."]

Rhapsody in Purple

Reshaping hearts through political canvassing. Kat Griffith

The Delight of Being Alive

A walking prayer meditation for healing. Gail Melix (Greenwater)

Lessons from My Quaker Ancestors and the People They Enslaved

A Friend studies the history of slavery and abolition in his family. Os Cresson

Learning Our True History

Alaskan Friends seek right relationships with Indigenous peoples. Jan Bronson

QUNO staff promoting Climate Change

Emblems of Change

Friends’ global responses to the climate crisis. Sharlee DiMenichi

Edward Hicks's painting, "Noah's Ark," features a line of animals, two by two, walking from right to left across the foreground, then doubling back and walking up a ramp into the ark, which looks like a giant warehouse plopped on top of a giant wooden boat.

The Time of Flooding

Noah had a vision. Vesta, his wife, listened. / She was strong and tall. Vesta cut Elaine Reardon

Legacy

If legacy means long arms— / my grandfather’s smile Bill Shay

Colorful Textured Quilt

Turning a Row

how love inscribes its wanderings / in patterns in a Blocks and Strips sheening, Russell Endo

Forum, February 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff

Man standing on Cliff

On the Use of Despair

Despair, like any emotion, must be felt, acknowledged, given room to crescendo, and only then pointed toward action. Amanda Franklin

In Your Light We See Light

New for 2025, the Bible Study department runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues. Ron Hogan

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